We have had quite a bit of sadness and sorrow in our Family Organization the past few months and the Editors, the Executive Board and the Organization wish to extend out deepest sympathy and condolences to the families and loved ones of these dear sisters.
May the following offer some comfort.
“I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud where the sea and the sky come down to single with each other. Then someone at my side says, ‘There, she’s gone.’
“Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living weight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says: ‘There, she’s gone,’ there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take the glad shout, “There, she’s coming.” — And such is dying.”
Loony Lunts and Company 